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My Times
A year after the Jayson Blair scandal, the deposed executive editor of The New York Times answers his critics, acknowledges his mistakes, deconstructs the events that ended his tumultuous tenure, and provides a no-holds-barred assessment of what he sees as a great newspaper in crisis.
by Howell Raines

A Sea Story
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place a decade ago. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From survivor testimony and other sources our correspondent has pieced together the Estonia's last moments—part of his continuing coverage for the magazine of anarchy on the high seas
by William Langewiesche

The Front-Runner's Fall
The Dean implosion up close, from the vantage point of the candidate's pollster
by Paul Maslin

"Knifed"
In 1968 the Kennedy family essentially blackballed a brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who was very close to being chosen as Hubert Humphrey's running mate. In doing so, they may have accidentally thrown the election to Richard Nixon
by Scott Stossel

New & NoteworthyThe Reformation, by Diarmaid MacCulloch; The War for Righteousness, by Richard M. Gamble; New Grub Street, by George Gissing
reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz

Poor Old Willie
The life of W. Somerset Maugham was a good deal more "exquisite, dramatic, torrid, and tragic"—especially in his splendid Mediterranean exile—than any of his works
by Christopher Hitchens